In an effort to celebrate the official launch of djphillips.com, challenge my songwriting/ recording abilities and to take my own swipe at a 30 Day Project I will now post a new song idea every day for the next 30 days. These are not necessarily finished products. They are not necessarily fantastic pop nuggets. But they will be new ideas (written at least within the last few weeks). They will be (pretty much) on time. And they will be original.

Along with each posted song, I’ll include a little story of the writing and recording process. If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t like to know what’s behind a song, feel free to skip all the content below the track.

I’m putting these out there-- warts and all-- so let me know what you think! The songs that get a good response will be the most likely to be included on a future release.

The Way She Looked at Me

It's been a weird, somber day with all of the crazy flooding happening all around Nashville. So a somber song to fit the mood, I guess.

I had a little leaking in the basement, but otherwise I've been extremely lucky and relatively dry. The amp and pedalboard had to come live upstairs for a while. It feels a little stupid to talk about what I was thinking when I wrote this or that when people are having their homes destroyed, but here goes.

"The Way She Looked At Me" is just about having an intense draw towards someone even though everything and everyone is telling you it's wrong or not going to work. Sometimes even both the parties involved even know that it's not going to work, but you just go headfirst into it anyway.

It's a relatively subtle song so I wanted some subtle production to the recording. I just did a couple of guitar parts, background vocals, some strings and a weird warped keyboard part. I think it turned out pretty decently.

There were no big snafus or discoveries this time around, but I am pretty happy with the guitar tone this time around-- another plug-in guitar amplifier simulator. Hope you like it. And be safe out there!